This lesson plan is designed for students to collaborate and communicate with eachother about issues and problems in world of environmental conservation.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use
Daily Lesson GAME Plan
Lesson Title: What is going on in the world, country, state, and locally with environmental conservation?
Related Lessons: Why should we recycle? The affects of pollution on the environment. What steps can be taken to conserve the environment?
Grade Level: 6th
Unit: Environmental Conservation
GOALS
Content Standards: Life Science · Populations and ecosystems Science in Personal and Social Perspectives · Personal health · Populations, resources, and environments · Natural hazards · Risks and benefits · Science and technology in society
ISTE NET-S
1.Creativity and innovation
þ4.Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making
þ2.Communication and collaboration
þ5.Digital Citizenship
þ3.Research and information fluency
þ6. Technology operations and concepts
Instructional Objective(s): Students will search for online-articles about environmental conservation at the world, country, state, and local level. Students will read their articles and write a summary for each one. Students will post the link of their articles to their group blog and summaries. Students will have to comment on group members posts and find similarities with their own.
ACTION
Before-Class Preparation: Groups of four will be created. Lessons on how to do an affective search and how to use a blog.
During Class
Time
Instructional Activities
Materials and Resources
Day 1 20 minutes
Students in group of fours create a blog. Each student in the group will research either an environmental issue with the world, country, state or locally; one for each student. Example: Student A- Some where in the World Student B- Some where in the Country Student C- Some where in the State Student D- Some where locally within the County, Town, or City Students will use any search engine of their liking.
• computer with internet
• blogger.com
Day 1 15 minutes
Once students have found their article via the internet they will read and summarize their article.
Day 1 15 minutes
Students will then post the link to their group blog along with a summary of their article. The summary should include:
Date
Place
Who or what is affected
Efforts to resolve the issues
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
Day 2 40 Minutes
Students should now read each of their group members’ blog postings. Then students will comment on each group members post and note the following:
Similarities in their articles
Differences in their articles
Opinions on the situation
Ask a question
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
Day 3 20 Minutes
Students will read comments left by their teammates and respond to the comments. Students will then reflect on what they learned from not only their own blog post but everyone else in their group. This will also be a blog post.
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
MONITOR
Ongoing Assessment(s): Use a checklist to ensure active student participation in the collaboration. Periodically check the links, summaries, and responses on their groups blogs. Students use a teacher-generated rubric to identify components on the group blog. Accommodations and Extensions: Provide guidance to students who are having difficulty finding an article or summarizing as well. If some students need assistance in managing their blogs, consider placing them with a partner to complete the task. Encourage students to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
EVALUATION
Lesson Plan Reflections and Notes: Grade the activity using a rubric for each completed component. Incorporate student suggestions for new activities or demonstrations that can show the impact of pollution on the world’s environment.
My lesson plan is designed to teach students the ill affects of pollution. Through an activity where the students design their own ecosystem, they witness first hand the affects pollution has on a living environemnt.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use
Daily Lesson GAME Plan
Lesson Title: What type of an effect does pollution/acid rain have on an ecosystem?
Related Lessons: What is an ecosystem? What is the water cycle? Why should we recycle?
Grade Level: 6th
Unit: Environmental Conservation
GOALS
Content Standards: Science as Inquiry · Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry · Understandings about scientific inquiry Life Science · Populations and ecosystems Personal, resources, and environments · Natural hazards · Risks and benefits · Science and technology in society
ISTE NET-S
þ1.Creativity and innovation
þ4.Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making
þ2.Communication and collaboration
þ5.Digital Citizenship
3.Research and information fluency
6. Technology operations and concepts
Instructional Objective(s): Students will keep an online journal of the daily occurrences in their self made ecosystems. Students will also take pictures using digital cameras and upload photos along with their daily blog entries.
ACTION
Before-Class Preparation: Ask the students to bring two 2 liter empty soda bottles to school. Bottles should be empty and rinsed of soda.
During Class
Time
Instructional Activities
Materials and Resources
30 minutes
To create our ecosystem we must first follow a few steps: (teacher demonstrates each step as he/she reads them aloud.)
Take off any labels on the bottles. Use the scissors to cut the top off each bottle about 20 cm. (8 in) from the bottom. “We are using metric here because in science we suppose to use the metric system.”
Fill each bottle about halfway with soil; scatter the seeds on the top.
Use the watering can to sprinkle about 250 ml (1 cup) of water into each bottle.
Place a piece of plastic wrap over the top of each bottle; use the rubber band to keep the plastic down around the sides of the bottle.
Place the two bottles on a sunny, warm windowsill or near a bright lamp.
Label one bottle "control" and the other "test" with a permanent marker.
• two clean, clear 2-liter plastic soda bottles • scissors • clear plastic wrap • two "loose" rubber bands • some grass seed • a small pail of good old garden dirt (not potting soil) • a ruler • marking pen and two labels
15 minutes
Then I will tell the class “It will take three to five days for your ecosystems to become established, so be patient! At least once a day, you should carefully observe each bottle and record any changes that you see, including the presence of any little life-forms. Once the grass and other organisms start to materialize, try altering one of the ecosystems.” The children will have a journal where they record their observations. The students will also create a daily blog site where they share the same information in their journal on their blog along with images.
• lab journal • computer with internet access to blogger.com • digital camera
15-20 minutes for the next 5 school days
Remove plastic wrap and water both the control and the experimental ecosystems every other day. Record observations of what you see in your ecosystems in your journals and update your daily blogs. Also take pictures of both ecosystems and upload them to the blog as well.
• a small watering can with clean tap water • lab journal • computer with internet access to blogger.com • digital camera
15-20 minutes for the next 5 school days
After 5 days continue with the following:
Uncover the plastic wrap from your two ecosystems.
Sprinkle a half cup of tap water over the "control" ecosystem every other day. Over the "experimental" ecosystem, sprinkle a half cup of pure water mixed with 2 tablespoons of concentrated lemon juice every other day.
Leave the plastic wrap off the top of the bottles.
Carefully observe each ecosystem daily and list all the changes and organisms you see in your journal as well as on your daily blog.
• a small watering can with clean tap water • a small watering can with concentrated lemon juice in water • lab journal • computer with internet access to blogger.com • digital camera
Last class period of observations: 45 minutes
On the last days students will answer the following questions in their lab journals and on their daily blogs.
What type of an effect did "acid rain" (or lemon juiced water) have on your ecosystem?
Was your prediction that you made before the experiment correct or not? Why?
So from our experiment what can you say about acid rain?
A final picture of their ecosystems will also be uploaded to their blogs.
Utilizing their findings, the students will create a public service announcement that highlights the reason to recycle and not to pollute. A rubric will be utilized to assess the announcement, and I will share the expectations with the students.
• lab journal • computer with internet access to blogger.com • digital camera • computer with video-editing software such as iMovie (Apple) or Movie Maker (Windows) • Rubric
MONITOR
Ongoing Assessment(s): Use a checklist to ensure active student participation in the investigation. Periodically check the data collect on their personal blogs or in their lab notebooks. Students use a teacher-generated rubric to identify components on the daily blog and public service announcement.
Accommodations and Extensions: Provide guidance to students who are having difficulty distinguishing or observing changes in their ecosystems. If some students need assistance in managing their blogs or uploading their photos, consider placing them with a partner to complete the task. Provide digital cameras for each student to create a virtual catalog of the ecosystems. Encourage students to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
EVALUATION
Lesson Plan Reflections and Notes: Grade the activity using a rubric for each completed component. Incorporate student suggestions for new activities or demonstrations that can show the affects of pollution on living things.
Nishan, I love your lesson on acid rain and the effects it has on the ecosystem. I bet your students are very enfluenced by the effects of the lemon juice it has on their plants. Using a blog to allow students to answer reflection questions is a great way to involve technology to the classroom. I hope you are having a good year and wish you a happy holidays.
Chris Murphy
Nishan, http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html This is a great lesson and one that the kids will enjoy. You are using imovie or movie maker so are you going to have the kids create a video of their public service announcement? I was not quite sure.
Deanna Lomax
Nishan, Your lesson is very engaging. I ran upon this site that might give you an idea for your social networking project at http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html Connie
This lesson plan is designed for students to collaborate and communicate with eachother about issues and problems in world of environmental conservation.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Life Science
· Populations and ecosystems
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
· Personal health
· Populations, resources, and environments
· Natural hazards
· Risks and benefits
· Science and technology in society
Students will search for online-articles about environmental conservation at the world, country, state, and local level. Students will read their articles and write a summary for each one. Students will post the link of their articles to their group blog and summaries. Students will have to comment on group members posts and find similarities with their own.
Groups of four will be created. Lessons on how to do an affective search and how to use a blog.
20 minutes
Example:
Student A- Some where in the World
Student B- Some where in the Country
Student C- Some where in the State
Student D- Some where locally within the County, Town, or City
Students will use any search engine of their liking.
• blogger.com
15 minutes
15 minutes
The summary should include:
40 Minutes
20 Minutes
Students will then reflect on what they learned from not only their own blog post but everyone else in their group. This will also be a blog post.
Accommodations and Extensions: Provide guidance to students who are having difficulty finding an article or summarizing as well. If some students need assistance in managing their blogs, consider placing them with a partner to complete the task. Encourage students to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
My lesson plan is designed to teach students the ill affects of pollution. Through an activity where the students design their own ecosystem, they witness first hand the affects pollution has on a living environemnt.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Science as Inquiry
· Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
· Understandings about scientific inquiry
Life Science
· Populations and ecosystems
Personal, resources, and environments
· Natural hazards
· Risks and benefits
· Science and technology in society
Students will keep an online journal of the daily occurrences in their self made ecosystems. Students will also take pictures using digital cameras and upload photos along with their daily blog entries.
Ask the students to bring two 2 liter empty soda bottles to school. Bottles should be empty and rinsed of soda.
• scissors
• clear plastic wrap
• two "loose" rubber bands
• some grass seed
• a small pail of good old garden dirt (not potting soil)
• a ruler
• marking pen and two labels
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
• digital camera
• lab journal
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
• digital camera
• a small watering can with concentrated lemon juice in water
• lab journal
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
• digital camera
- What type of an effect did "acid rain" (or lemon juiced water) have on your ecosystem?
- Was your prediction that you made before the experiment correct or not? Why?
- So from our experiment what can you say about acid rain?
A final picture of their ecosystems will also be uploaded to their blogs.Utilizing their findings, the students will create a public service announcement that highlights the reason to recycle and not to pollute. A rubric will be utilized to assess the announcement, and I will share the expectations with the students.
• computer with internet access to blogger.com
• digital camera
• computer with video-editing software such as iMovie (Apple) or Movie Maker (Windows)
• Rubric
Accommodations and Extensions: Provide guidance to students who are having difficulty distinguishing or observing changes in their ecosystems. If some students need assistance in managing their blogs or uploading their photos, consider placing them with a partner to complete the task. Provide digital cameras for each student to create a virtual catalog of the ecosystems. Encourage students to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Nishan,
I love your lesson on acid rain and the effects it has on the ecosystem. I bet your students are very enfluenced by the effects of the lemon juice it has on their plants. Using a blog to allow students to answer reflection questions is a great way to involve technology to the classroom. I hope you are having a good year and wish you a happy holidays.
Chris Murphy
Nishan,
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
This is a great lesson and one that the kids will enjoy. You are using imovie or movie maker so are you going to have the kids create a video of their public service announcement? I was not quite sure.
Deanna Lomax
Nishan,
Your lesson is very engaging. I ran upon this site that might give you an idea for your social networking project at http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Connie